zeev your thoughts on iraq are well founded and others here inc me have indicated those types of ideas a better alternative than "all out war"...perhpas in fact the best alternative amongst all bad ones.
Do we want to set a precendent, what with N Korea rattling, India/pakistan still smoldering in the bacground...i think not,...sadly, becasue of timing maybe Saddam wins, on running out the clock...we dont like that , but is it the safer chess move, for NOW....there is a greater risk to world instability if we go to war now, unless some drastic new element comes up re iraq; and if that happened id reconsider.
zeev you said
could be easily translated to a permanent regime of inspection, followed by UN enforcement of human rights in the same manner and a gradual removal of Saddam and the Baath's hold without an actual invasion. Inspectors would have to continue and report monthly, and any deviation would bering back the threat of forcible enforcement. In time, we protect ourselves and the rest of the world from that threat and do not go all the way to war. There are a lot of advantages to such a solution, it shows the wrold we do not enforce our will without regard of world opinion, it gives Germany and France a "way out, but we exact the price of permanent inspection and enforcement of UN presence and control until Iraq develops its own more humane form of Government.
...sounds like common sense to me..............if the powers can agree to it
MH
Who here wants to comfort the parents of the soldiers below?
4005 brave American soldiers killed..sent to their death by a cowardly president called bush and the opposition that enabled it.
AI
